Senior Risk Officer, Gasoline

Posted:
8/26/2024, 10:59:37 PM

Location(s):
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland ⋅ Geneva, Switzerland

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Operations & Logistics

Job Title:

Senior Risk Officer, Gasoline

Contract Type:

Permanent

Time Type:

Full time

Job Description:

Overview of Role

The Senior Risk Officer, Gasoline role is a member of the risk team, leading and delivering PnL and position analysis to Management and Front Office. The role reports to the Risk Manager.

Main Responsibilities

  • Analyze, model, and report market risk for all trading activities. Assess and monitor physical and financial trades. Analyze mark-to-market valuations, risk positions, basis changes, curves and volatilities and P/L results daily.

  • Manage daily production and reporting of P&L , positions/exposures from trading system(s), pnl attribution

  • Manage daily checks and trade integrity completeness between desks and trading system

  • Develop and maintain risk reporting/analytics to communicate position, P/L and market risk to traders and management.

  • Coordinate and review deal and price in trading system by performing deal check, price validation, curve update, and data reconciliation. Monitor timely deal capture, internal trading limits, and risk policy requirements to ensure the representativeness and integrity of transactions in the trading system.

  • Provide critical thinking around risk reporting processes, quantification, and analysis of commodity exposure and forward price movements for trading activities.

  • Maintain, enhance, and review risk models. Test new risk calculations, evaluate model assumptions against fundamentals, and communicate suggested modeling/valuation enhancements to achieve better valuation and risk quantification.

  • Communicate effectively with Front Office, Operation, Trade Support, Finance and IT team on inputs and assumptions.

  • Work closely with Traders to quantify and explain the sources of risk in their portfolios.

  • Contribute to the reporting of Trading Result/ Position to Senior management. Responsible for monthly translation into accounting of trading results.

  • Prepare various reports and analysis for publishing internally and to the Management Board as the case may be.

  • Work closely with Back Office, Finance, Credit, Legal & Compliance, Business Unit Control to ensure best control practices, operational efficiency, and policy/limit compliance.

  • Coordinate with Compliance to ensure compliance requirements are met.

  • Support, identify, and assist in implement of process improvement, from system testing and implementations to desk level process.

  • Identify and communicate operational risk, define risk mitigating measures and priorities.

  • Month end and year end reconciliations with finance and external auditors as required.

  • Training and mentoring of Junior Risk Officers

  • Back up / support for other desk’s Risk officers when required.

Profile/Key Skills

  • Curious and proactive, rigorous and meticulous

  • Demonstrated Business Analysis skills

  • Comprehensive understanding of risk management methodologies and valuation models

  • High knowledge of analytics tools and technologies.

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Python

  • Eagerness to learn and ability to work with limited supervision (if already experienced)

  • Strong entrepreneurial spirit, naturally curious and proactive

  • Excellent attention to detail; rigorous and meticulous

  • Strong interpersonal skills

  • High degree of accuracy and efficiency under set deadlines

  • Fluent in English, both written and spoken, French is a plus

  • Strong communication and organizational skills

  • Knowledge of quantitative risk analysis is a plus

If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!


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